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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith
Life, Travel, Journey

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith
Inspirational, Life, Change
Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith
Motivational, Success, Perseverance

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship, Disappointment, Tired
Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.116

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

Oliver Goldsmith
Sweet, Glasses, Gold
Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.12, Courier Corporation

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Friendship, Birthday
1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

Oliver Goldsmith
Running, Fighting, May
Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Oliver Goldsmith
Husband, Wife, Wedding Toast

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Change, Death

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith
Real, Evil, Encounters
Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Oliver Goldsmith
Wisdom, Causes, Effects
Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.426

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith
Men, Law, Justice
'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith
Men, Decay, Wealth
The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Oliver Goldsmith
Gratitude, Thinking, Debt
Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith
Country, Different, Politeness
Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.112

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Oliver Goldsmith
Happiness, Moments, Ifs
Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith
Inspirational, Fortune, Industry

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith
Laughter, Laughing, Mind
'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith
Laughter, Laughing, Way

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Oliver Goldsmith
Funny, Witty, Lying
Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship, Book, Reading
Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.335

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Oliver Goldsmith
Wise, Home, Taste

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Oliver Goldsmith
Science, Psychology, Mind
Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Oliver Goldsmith
Thinking, Fool, World

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